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Joe goes home and wonders how he has come to share a downtown loft with a tense and bossy woman who bombards him with her ther- apist's theories; Angela goes home to her uptown apartment and fends off an earnest suitor. Months, and two hundred pages, later-about two-thirds of the way through the story, which spans many years-the newsletter's circulation has skyrock- eted, but Joe has not yet dared to spend an entire night with Angela.. Gwyneth Cravens' chronicle of this passion's halting evolution is a sub- tle, surprising blend of pique and sympathy. Joe and Angela seem at times as bumpkinish as Shake- speare's Pyramus and Thisbe, but they are up-to-date Manhattan- ites-he a laconic Ivy Leaguer (Harvard, presumably) and she a garrulous bush leaguer (Gatch, New Mexico )-and their updated wall-with-chink is an obstacle to be chipped at with the tools of psy- chologese: "behaviors," "resis- tance," "transference." Joe Bly has a thick waist and a bald spot, and Angela Lee says "gore-may" and "yup," but Gwyneth Cravens gives their mutual obsession and frustra- tion a timeless solidity by detailing all the ways they try to grow and then learn to harden, and she dares, right up to the end, to avoid every romantic-tragic or comic-cliche.. L.A. WOMAN, by Eve Babitz (Lin- den Press/Simon & Schuster- $13.50). A short and tangled story about growing up in Hollywood in the nineteen-fifties and sixties Some of the episodes describe the narra- tor's easygoing parents and their friends (her father is a studio violin- ist who resembles Leslie Howard -:::::-- portraying Albert Einstein; her mother is an escapee from Sour Lake, Texas, who wins fame in Hollywood for her Mexican feasts; and a number of their best friends are Joe McCarthy's worst enemies), and some of the episodes are set in Paris (when her father receives various research grants, to study Bach scores, he takes his family with him), but most of them feature the narrator and her girl friends-at first, while en- rolled at Hollywood High, trying to look like Older Women by means of cock- tail dresses, fake eyelashes, mascara, and high heels, and then, after they have reached their mid-twenties and have shown no signs of growing up or set- tling down, wondering what rock- and-rollers (at least those who haven't yet killed themselves) do once they've turned forty. Eve Babitz's style could be termed High- T ech Primitive; her story is a glit- tery patchwork, and the reader who looks for logical links between chap- ters (or paragraphs, or sentences) will feel like a hopeless square. NOTE: V.. S. Pritchett's "Collected Stories," some of which first appeared in The New Yorker, has been published by Random House ($20 ). . . GENER.AL SKETCHES FROM LIFE, by Lewis Mumford (Dial; $19.95).. In this first volume of autobiography, Mr.. Mumford, who is now in his eighty-seventh year, covers the first half of his notable life. He tells of his boyhood in New York, in a rela- tively humble German-American family milieu; of his cryptic paren- tage (he was in his forties before his mother told him who his father was); of his unsystematic education; and of his slow, occasionally stum- bling climb in a polymathic career.. His interest in architecture and in the planning of towns and cities led to his pursuit of writing skills, so that he could express his thinking properly; to studies of technology; to explorations in art and aesthetics; and, inevitably, to political philos- ophy. A portion of the book de- scribes his ambivalent but generally productive discipleship under Sir